Spirit of Lanarkshire Wind Energy Collective (SOLWEC) Community Fund invitation for applications<\/p>\n
Spirit of Lanarkshire Wind Energy Cooperative (SOLWEC) Community Fund<\/p>\n
The SOLWEC Community Fund aims to support communities within 5 miles of our West Browncastle (north of Drumclog and Caldermill) and Nutberry (west of Coalburn, Lesmahagow) wind farms to pursue environmental projects. locations on this map https:\/\/www.spiritoflanarkshire.coop\/wind-turbine-locations\/ <\/a><\/p>\n These may involve: energy efficiency, energy advice, energy generation, conservation, biodiversity and wildlife, environmental education and information, environmental campaigns or similar projects.<\/p>\n The SOLWEC Board will allocate an amount of profits to this aim every year.<\/p>\n Please contact Gordon Jorgensen JorgensenG@northlan.gov.uk<\/a> about your proposal.<\/p>\n About the Fund<\/p>\n \u00b7 A total fund of up to \u00a35000 is available annually, depending on the operating revenue of the Cooperative.<\/p>\n \u00b7 The Board invite applications for between \u00a3500 up to \u00a35000 with the intention of making several smaller grants per year.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Applications for contributions to larger projects are welcome.<\/p>\n \u00b7 The closing date for applications will be the 31st May each year.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Priority is given to environmental projects which align with the aims of the fund listed above.<\/p>\n Eligibility<\/p>\n \u00b7 The fund is available to groups in South Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire and East Renfrew with priority given to constituted groups in a 5 mile radius of the 2 Wind Farms.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Groups must have an up-to-date Constitution or Governance Document.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Grants must be paid to a Bank, Building Society or Credit Union Account in the name of the organisation.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Any grant received must be spent within one year of award.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Groups will not be eligible for another grant from the fund until all monitoring and evaluation reports have been completed.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Applications from organisations that have previously received grants from us may be treated as a lower priority if there is a lot of competition for the available funds.<\/p>\n For more information about us, see http:\/\/spiritoflanarkshire.coop\/<\/a><\/p>\n Location: South Lanarkshire<\/p>\n For further information, please contact JorgensenG@northlan.gov.uk<\/a> (JorgensenG@northlan.gov.uk), or visit https:\/\/www.spiritoflanarkshire.coop\/community-benefit\/<\/a><\/p>\n The deadline is Saturday 30 May 2020 at 17:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spirit of Lanarkshire Wind Energy Collective (SOLWEC) Community Fund invitation for applications Spirit of Lanarkshire Wind Energy Cooperative (SOLWEC) Community Fund The SOLWEC Community Fund aims to support communities within 5 miles of our West Browncastle (north of Drumclog and Caldermill) and Nutberry (west of Coalburn, Lesmahagow) wind farms to pursue environmental projects. locations on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}